Monthly Website Tips: Social March

Ok this area of work is kinda new for me. Never dugg into the social aspect of the web that much as a tech guy. But after some weeks of trying I booked some interesting results with it.

Forums

When looking into the other things (comments, digg(-clones)), and in particular looking through my access_logs. I found out that alot of people where checking out the sites I placed in my forum signature. After setting up a bit more advanced logging on this (phenomena). I found 2 different groups that where clicking. First the returning visitors (more then 1 visit) made out about 10 - 20% of the incoming hits from forums. The other 80 - 90% goes to the new visitor. So putting links in your forum signature is certainly worth the little effort.

Comments

Posting comments has the same effect as a forum signature. When posting a constructive (or just a positive) comment on a post/article/entry people tend to check out your site. This will have a positive effect on the number of visitors your getting.But again make sure to post something useful/constructive.

Sites

Below are a few sites that, when used properly, can increase your reach.

Blogsvine was the first Digg clone that really gave me the idea could become something big (although you never know :P). Normally I would either ignore sites like this but for some reason (probably cause it's focused on bloggers) it interested me to join and submit some of my posts. After doing so and submitting the first one (bare in mind they where only open for 3 weeks then) and looking whathappened the vist vote came rather fast. Alot faster then expected. Happy with the fast progress I submitted 3 more posts and 2 of them ended up on their frontpage. This quickly resulted in a hand full of hits in over an hour. Something I had the BlogRush widget on my site for months but not getting one and now I had them within 60 minutes.

Entrecard is really new for me it's. After ready Michael Aulia's post on it I gave it a shot. No regrets this far but didn't found anythinguse full yet besides that other users will check out your site to drop their card. Will get back on this some time later. But wanted to mention it since it lookspromising.

This time the article is shorter then normal but with these tips you can gain easily as much as with the previous articles. Next month I'll get to something techie again since I'm alot better at it.

WyriHaximus